Digital BW, The Print

Rob:

You could start with thoroughly cleaning the bottom of the printhead 
following the window cleaner and folded paper towel in the tray 
approach.  The regular printhead cleaning cycles don't do a great job 
even with the rubber/felt squeegee that gets wiped over the bottom of 
the printhead.  This has worked for me on my 1160s and 1270s.

Jeff Randall

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "antelobo" 
<antelobo@y...> wrote:
> Hello all-
> 
> After sitting for about a year (I know, I know; mea culpa) I pulled 
> two still-wet VM cartriges and put in the new UT cartriges.  Had 
> microbanding (same direction as print head travel) evident in the 
> flatter midtones.  Also some ink dribbling out in large smears 
where 
> the printhead changes direction.  Put it through 5 head cleaning 
> cycles and there was some improvement, so changed to regular epson 
> carts to save ink and 5 more cycles.  Smearing has stopped and 
color 
> prints now look passable, but the microbanding is still evident.  
> Nozzle check ok. I started seeing occasional bands last year and 
> didnt have time to work it out - what else can I do about this, 
other 
> than cleaning/running ink through heads?  Any advice?
>  
> I'm really only interested in using it for B&W and 4 shades of 
black 
> certainly seems enough -- On his website, Paul Roark mentioned he 
is 
> using the 1280 now, anybody care to comment on that?
> 
> Any and all thoughts appreciated;
> 
> rob